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TRENCH WARFARE WWI

TRENCH WARFARE WWI

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare - Construction • Estimated over 25, 000 miles • Trenches dug to

Trench Warfare - Construction • Estimated over 25, 000 miles • Trenches dug to a height higher than men, about 8 -12’ • Walls reinforced with wood beams and sandbags-revetments • Floor of trench typically covered with wooden slats-duckboards

Trench Warfare - Construction • Shorter ledge built into front of trench to allow

Trench Warfare - Construction • Shorter ledge built into front of trench to allow shooters to fire rifles/machine guns-firestep • “No Man’s Land” – the land between opposing trenches, usually 100 -300 yards, some areas as little as 16 yards or as much as 2 miles, fortified with barbed wire

No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land

Trench Warfare - Construction • German trenches were in stark contrast to British trenches.

Trench Warfare - Construction • German trenches were in stark contrast to British trenches. German trenches were built to last and included bunk beds, furniture, cupboards, water tanks with faucets, electric lights, and doorbells

German Trench

German Trench

Trench Warfare - Life • Often wet, rains would flood trench waist deep •

Trench Warfare - Life • Often wet, rains would flood trench waist deep • Trenches were muddy, unsanitary • Latrines built into trenches • Flies, maggots, rats, fleas rampant • 1914 coldest winter on record to date, frostbite

Trench Rats

Trench Rats

Trench Warfare - Life • Trench Foot-due to cold wet conditions, cells in feet

Trench Warfare - Life • Trench Foot-due to cold wet conditions, cells in feet die resulting in gangrene, amputation • Trench Mouth-infection of throat and mouth, gums bleed • Dysentery-intestine disease, unsanitary conditions, fatal • Typhus-infectious disease from rats and fleas, fatal

Trench Foot

Trench Foot